TechCrunch: What Was Skype’s Shortfall? When Skype founder Niklas Zennstrom stepped down earlier this month with only one-third of his payout from eBay, it was clear that Skype fell short of its goals in regards to growing its number of active users, revenues, and gross profits.

I’ve updated the eBay Inc. contracts to include the Earn Out Settlement Agreement. Unfortunately, eBay omitted Schedule 1.1. from theEarn Out Agreement between eBay Inc. and Skype Technologies S.A., which included the “certain metrics.”